false 804675 792712 1585677434 9781585677436 21 <![CDATA[Today I Wrote Nothing: The Selected Writing of Daniil Kharms]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178407092m/792712.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178407092s/792712.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/792712.Today_I_Wrote_Nothing_The_Selected_Writing_of_Daniil_Kharms 4.56 98 A master of formally inventive poetry and what today would be called "micro-fiction," Kharms built off the legacy of Russian Futurist writers to create a uniquely deadpan style written out of--and in spite of--the absurdities of life in Stalinist Russia. Featuring the acclaimed novella "The Old Woman" and darkly humorous short prose sequence "Events" (Sluchai), Today I Wrote Nothing also includes dozens of short prose pieces, plays, and poems long admired in Russia, but never before available in English.

A major contribution for American readers and students of Russian literature and an exciting discovery for fans of contemporary writers as eclectic as George Saunders, John Ashbery, and Martin McDonagh, Today I Wrote Nothing is an invaluable collection for readers of innovative writing everywhere.

]]> 131195 4.49 354 52 804675 4.59 127 26 2007 1323469 0974318183 9780974318189 3 <![CDATA[The Present Work]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1182757049m/1323469.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1182757049s/1323469.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1323469.The_Present_Work 4.60 20 804675 4.59 127 26 2006 7041014 9781933959092 1 <![CDATA[Aufgabe #8]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1256428973m/7041014.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1256428973s/7041014.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7041014-aufgabe-8 5.00 5 637326 5.00 53 11 804675 4.59 127 26 2009 7049261 9780980193824 1 <![CDATA[Boris by the Sea]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1257705886m/7049261.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1257705886s/7049261.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7049261-boris-by-the-sea 4.75 4
"BORIS BY THE SEA was born when Aesop was reading Chekhov, and Chekhov was reading Nietzsche, and Nietzsche was watching The Brother From Another Planet. Actually Matvei Yankelevich wrote this book, but 'wrote' is incomplete... he seems more to inhabit this stateless, beautiful being who uses language to move his body or erase the sea: 'Boris looked over himself and realized there were many parts of him that he could not see. And only a small part of these parts was on the surface.' BORIS BY THE SEA could be a children's fable if it weren't so freakin' real, unreal, hyper-real: 'But people need each other to open each other up and see what is inside.' This is Boris--and he, like Pinnochio--has a clever master." -- ROBERT FITTERMAN

Matvei Yankelevich's first full-length book, BORIS BY THE SEA, is a work of existential theater that destroys the distance between puppeteer and puppet, between ego and id, between what is real and what is absurd. Consisting of prose, poems, and plays, the book creates its own world and then confronts the loneliness of having to exist within one's own creation. Like Daniil Kharms, Yankelevich has written a children's book for only the bravest of adults.]]> 804675 4.59 127 26 2009